"That much" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... opened upon New England under circumstances which evinced that much had already been accomplished, and that still better prospects and brighter hopes were before her. She had laid, deep and strong, the foundations of her society. Her religious principles were firm, and her moral ...
— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster
... dollars; and once for forty thousand dollars—but something always told me not to do it. What a fool I would have been to sell it for such a beggarly trifle! It is the land that's to bring the money, isn't it Laura? You can tell me that much, can't you?" ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... gold and five thousand dirhams of the coinage of Hajar[FN90] and a hundred pieces of woollen cloth and striped stuffs[FN91] of Al-Yaman and five bladders of ambergris." Said I, "Thou shalt have that much; dost thou consent?"; and he said, "I do consent." So I despatched to Al-Medinah the Illumined[FN92] a party of the Ansaris, who brought all for which I had become surety; whereupon they slaughtered sheep and cattle and the folk assembled to eat ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton
... behind her the five-shilling piece. For this marred that perfect symmetry of iniquity which is so pleasant to the eye when displayed by people of whom we "have no opinion." Only Mrs. Brian said it was a mercy she had that much good nature in her itself. But even she added that the fewer of them kind of folks she saw comin' about the place, the better she'd be pleased, and she hoped they'd got shut of them ...
— Strangers at Lisconnel • Barlow Jane
... do, a large extent of country which, from the arid nature of its soil mist ever prove useless for purposes of settlement and colonization, I do not apprehend that much difficulty will arise between them and the whites, provided always that measures are taken to guard against certain possibilities of danger, and that the Crees are made to unnderstand that the forts and settlements ...
— The Great Lone Land - A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America • W. F. Butler
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